Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19
MINNESOTA.


sustained fatal injuries.
The school board OF Duluth has voted TO
open two night schools, one In the high school
building and one In the Adams, in the West
end, to continue four mouths.
John c. Cannon of New London, WHO had
been on q spree oil day and was very drunk,
was knocked down ON q side street In ST.
Cloud and robbed Of q silver watch and o few
dollars In money.
A dsstardly outrage was perpetrated last
Wednesday by ice Clemens OF Superior place,
aged forty-hve, aoon = young girl OF the same
place, aged nine years. Clemens was taken
before Justice Milton, and bound over for
trial in December.
The low water has curtailed the -four out
Put at Minneapolis by 10000 barrels, says the
North western Miller. There Is a good de-
mand for -four and millers are unable to I'LL
orders, rs they cannot run more than one
quarter TO one-half time unless they have
steam.
A large meeting CT the owners OK tree
claims was held at Beardsley a few days age
to take united action against q band OF
sharks nov endeavering to defraul tue hon
est farmers OF their ust earnings. A mass
meeting of all interested In Big Stone, TRAY
erse and adjoining counties WAS cal ed, to be
held In Morris, November %, at II a. IN.
Most Of the numbering outfits from Brain.
erd have gone into the woods the past week
The aggregate is close to 5000, 900, that is
expected TO be cut, and nearly one-ffth OF It
Is QUILTED for the week past. The mill pro-
duet at Brsinerd ard at Gull river will be
about $4,000, coo feet divided, $4,000, 900 by j.
j. Howe Il Co, and close to a2, OOO, 900 by the
Gull River Lumber company.
The board OF managers OF the State Agri
cultural society met at President Merriam's
office at st. Paul, and Secretary Hoard sub
United a statement Of the receipts and tx.
penses Of the last state fair. Everybody
seemed well satisfied. The net cash surplus
is over Is, 0t0, the net profits having been
over $4,000, Of which over $40, 600 went to the
internal improvement fund.
b. 8. Parsons, the young attorney who left
Duluth some time ago., returned Wednesday
and was Immediately arrested on two charges
hao VI ~ ioiSChy SOAu VHtSh tioih
Miss Schafer's dressmaking rooms, aud Sec
ond, the larceny OF $l10 from Charles F.
Smith, his 70 mer roommate. The cases were
set for hearing on Monday, and Parsons was
released on $500 bonds In each case. Parsons
says he returned with full knowledge that he
would be arrested, and he came back to meet
the charges.
Wadaen County Pioneer: Ben Burton says
that he and some OF the ne,ghbors had a ter
rible fight with fire the other day. Some one
had set out fire and II had got under terrible
Roadway before II could be checked. Con-
siderable timber was destroyed and It was
with extr, me difficulty that q large mount Of
hay stacked on the meadows was saved. Sew
eral stacks were burned 81 It wac. Mr.. Bur.
ton had his hands burned quite badly and
says several OF the men had their whiskere
ard hair badly scorcbed.
On Saturday Tom Powell, a colored horse
Jockey, arrived ir ST. Cloud, accompanied by
his wife, Miss Martha Farr.er, white, OF Ma
son City, Iowa. Powell, who was known as
Thomas Jefferson at Mason City, is now want
cd at that place for elop'ng with Miss Farrier.
When Powell was seen by a rep )rter and In
formed that the parents Of the wife were max.
ing endeavors to secure the erring girl, he
said: VI dom care a continental 'or the old
man. l can work and presume am able to
support my Wife"
!. r. Mcdonald, living on Fifth street and
Thirteenth avenue, West Duluth, has a two
hesd,d heifer calf born on Saturday last.
There are two distinct and perfect heads OF
ordinary size, connected at the ears. While
II has but two ears It mas -four eyes and two
mouths, and 1t takes nourlehment IL both
mouths. The animal is spotted black and
white, the mother being a thoroughbred Hol-
stein. The calf is perfectly natural In every
other respect and healthy, but not strong
enough In the neck to support two heads.
Albert Lea special, sth: Shortly after II p.
m. fire was discovered in the Fourth story OF
the large brick steam Touring mill. An alarm
brought out the fire company, but their gal
liant Efforts were Intellectual. The fire was IN
corquerahle and soon filed the building, and
spread 60 fast that in less than two hours the
immense structure with the adjscent ware.
house containing Is, 900 bushels OF wheat was
a complete ruin. The mill was frst.class,
costing 10000. The engine and boiler are
damaged badly, hut not ruined. The total
loss is SIS, 900; insurance $4,000 on mill and
e, 500 on wheat. The cause OF the.fre is a mys'
terry. 1t was fret seen In the top story and
was not likely ofincendiary origin. The mill
was owned by the Albert Lea Mill company.
1t VIII be rebuilt on q larger plan immediate
ly.
j. Roller who started q dry goods and gro,
Gerry store at Lake City three months ago
received an intimstion from some OF his cred
itors one day last week that he would have to
pay up Immediately or settlement would be
enforced by legal process. He fastened to In
form q number Of citizens that they could
have goods at his store at q sacrifice that
would astopish them. The news spread, there
was q rush for the "bargains," and In less
than five hours there was nothing left Of the
stock worth attaching. Mr.. Roller took the
next train for parts unknown. The represent
tative Of q ST. Paul firm to which Roller was
Indebted was registered at the Merchants.
and intended to attach the stock but he lay
abed till near noon and lost his chance.
A shooting occurrence happened In the vii.
lage OF Morris Monday evening, which adds
another to the long list of di~dn't'know-it-
was.loaded cases. Barbara Howe, a fourteen.